Andrew McDonald

Andrew McDonald has made major career advancements climbing the ladder at Cushman & Wakefield in just the past half-decade. 

In short order, McDonald moved from leading the brokerage’s West Coast efforts, to becoming its chief executive officer for the Americas region, to now leading the firm’s biggest business lines in the Americas and Asia Pacific regions, and also leading marketing, communications and research.

He’s a good fit for the intercontinental role after starting his career at Asimco, a Beijing-based equity firm acquired by Bain Capital. He returned to the U.S. in 1999, and started working at Cushman Realty, which merged with Cushman & Wakefield in 2001.

While McDonald ascends the universal ranks, the brokerage has nabbed a number of significant deals in L.A. this year while under his purview.

C&W represented Com2uS, a South Korean video game developer, as it planted its North American flag in El Segundo. It also represented the sellers of an industrial site in a deal with the owners of the Anaheim Ducks near the hockey arena, and the sellers of a 540,500-square-foot industrial portfolio in the Inland Empire in a $142 million deal with investment manager Stockbridge. C&W also helped negotiate a deal in which an Ares Management fund acquired an industrial distribution facility in Orange County from Clarion Partners.

Cushman & Wakefield also notably acquired Cresa Partners of Los Angeles and its 40-person operation in a landmark expansion in 2022. 

McDonald is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, a national lobby for the commercial real estate industry, and the policy advisory board at the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.